Posted on 07/22/2019 2:15:53 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Vice President Mike Pence was one short plane ride away from shaking hands with an alleged interstate drug dealer.
Pence abruptly canceled his trip to Manchester, N.H., earlier this month but never said why he was pulled from Air Force Two at the last minute.
The vice president’s aides and even President Donald Trump himself kept up the suspense. “You'll know in about two weeks,” Trump told reporters at the time. “There was a very interesting problem that they had in New Hampshire.”
Among the problems was a federal law enforcement probe involving individuals Pence would likely encounter, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the incident. If Pence stepped off the vice presidential aircraft, one of the people he would have seen on the ground was under investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration for moving more than $100,000 of fentanyl from Massachusetts to New Hampshire.
Jeff Hatch, who agreed in federal court Friday to plead guilty and will face up to four years in prison, works for an opioid addiction treatment center in southern New Hampshire that Pence was set to visit. A former New York Giants player, he has spoken publicly for years about his own challenge with drug and alcohol addiction, which ended his football career.
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Not dangerous, but a bad look.
I smell a deep state setup. The Demedia would like nothing more than to embarrass the Administration.
Good call by whoever in the administration caught this and stopped the visit.
Funny how thins wok out.
Had it been a Clinton, the trip would have gone on, the handshake would be celebrated across the land, and a few 10s of Millions of $$$ would have been ‘donated’ to the Clinton Foundation
Misinformation at some of the drug treatment websites indicates that quite a few addicts are involved in administering drug treatment. That’s not the kind of help that many parents would want to send their daughters to.
Wow, cause the problem then offer the “solution.” Sounds like dem politics.
Fentenal can kill with a handshake.
HMMMM interesting for sure
Well, Alcoholics Anonymous is run by alcoholics. That’s how these things usually work. Junkies don’t tend to take advice from someone who has lived life on the straight and narrow, but they might respect someone who has gone through the same things they have.
Good way to jettison Pence in favor of Nikky
Needs repeating.
Someone wanted a photo op of Pence and a drug dealer to spread it all over the internet.
Oops.
Quit pushing that broad will ya?
“wanted a photo op of Pence and a drug dealer to spread it all over the internet”
Yes, the stalinists would play that dirty.
Not me,
I am real happy with Mr. Pence,
More so with The Donald.
...and about that Russian sub concurrently limping back into port...
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